BGP Route reflectors and potato routing

If you are designing enterprise, service provider, even datacenter networks you have to understand BGP route reflector.

You want to know what is hot , cold and mash potato routing.

You want to clearly describe, manage and troubleshoot these concepts.

BGP route reflector are one of the BGP scaling mechanisms,has many pros and cons.

Hot and Cold Potato routing is used together with the IGP Protocols.

You can save or loose money by carrying traffic optimally or sub optimally. I wrote an article for the packetpushers about Potato routing, also BGP Route Reflector design considerations are explained in the article.

There are many different routing mechanisms for different applications; IGP routing, Segment routing, Onion routing, Proximity based routing, Mac Routing and so on.

If you think that I should cover all of the above routing mechanisms in a separate post, let me know.

Orhan Ergun

Cisco CCIE/CCDE Instructor - CCDE #2014:0017, CCIE #26567 (R&S), CCNP, CCDP, JNCIS, JNCIP
Orhan, an experienced 12-year+ IT architect, and "hands on" engineer, has a wide range of technical skill sets and expertise - with large-scale, worldwide designing being his most prominent. He's worked in various environment, including enterprise service provider networks, data center / virtualization environments, and in high-end security centric infrastructures.
He has been teaching Cisco network design concepts, CCDE and Pre-CCDE classes for the past two years. He contributed to Cisco Press CCDE Study Guide and official technical editor/reviewer for the Cisco CCDP Arch, Version 2 book.
In addition, Orhan runs a popular blog located at orhanergun.net. He's also a blogger and podcaster at Packet Pushers as well as an owner of the Google CCDE Group Study.